Things that everyone raves about that are actually shite PART 2

[LovelyTheresa]

Romcoms. Love Actually is the worst one, but it isn't the only one. I also loathe Notting Hill, Four Weddings, and most of the other ones as well. Pretty Woman is dire. I far prefer Old Hollywood screwball comedies. Some Like it Hot has to be the most perfect comedy ever, it is so funny and it is romantic without being schmaltzy.

Colleen Hoover novels.

I'm not that keen on him in rom coms but loved him in more recent stuff like A Very English Scandal & Paddington 2!

There’s a cinema in skiathos town that only shows Mamma Mia….every bloody night…and it’s always a sold out show! There also party boats that go out playing bloody Abba music for hours on end. Nightmareish!

Our neighbours painted every bit of woodwork on their entire (large, previously beautiful) house grey. All the doors, windows, fences, three big garage doors. And then (according to my teen who spends too much time on social media) the mum is a wannabe "influencer" and posts pictures of the inside of the house which is also all grey. The only non-grey thing is the bright green fake grass that covers their entire lawn.

It's already looks screamingly naff but undoubtedly in a few years even they will realise and then their endless cycle of "renovations" will begin again!!

Cafes, shops, bakeries, stalls etc that sell a single biscuit, muffin, brownie for £4.50… I can buy a pack of 12 at Tesco for less than two quid!

When it's with someone who you just 'click' with sexually it's truly the most amazing experience. I can't get enough of it with my partner and I used to be not fussed with previous partners.

So true! Hearing every fart, snort, gargle before they come to bed doesn’t exactly put you in the mood, the bloody fan whirring every time someone gets up for a wee in the night..

Argh…. If I lived there I’d probably emigrate 😆

Posh hotels.

No matter how luxurious the room I never feel entirely at ease, and I never sleep well. It’s always too hot or too cold or the air is too dry or something.

Also all hotels (even the poshest) have something wrong with them. Either the lifts work in a really weird way or it’s noisy or something.

Men

Another food one - certain “ must go to” restaurants which serve what my DM calls “Stacks & Drizzles”! Give me hearty food not tiny portions fussily arranged that you need to take out a 2nd mortgage to afford !

Local markets on every month that sell overpriced handmade stuff, I'm amazed they make enough money to keep going. Give me a car boot sale anyday!

Yes, I’d run a mile. I even hate the words - pamper/pampering.

Don’t think you’re missing anything!

I only watched it (part of it anyway) well after it was first on TV - full of utterly cliched situations you could see coming.

The only bright spot (for me anyway) was Maggie Smith.

I won't name it but I went to a very raved-about on trend restaurant in a "posh" part of London when visiting recently. Very expensive but really average to quite crap food (and some elements of dishes as described on menu were simply missing).

Service (which had been particularly raved about on review sites) was over-the-top friendly but actually poor (had to ask for cutlery for second course, request for ice was simply repeatedly ignored etc). All very disappointing at over £500 for five people.

Re en suite bathrooms...we are rebuilding an old house pretty much from an empty shell and when DH and I first sat down to decide our priorities in what we would do with it we both agreed the most important thing of all was that we did not have an en suite to our bedroom!

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I would be the same - l used to have one but l like to pee and poo in private, even with the door shut, it left nothing to the imagination!

Wish someone would give me £1000 worth of candles - I'd be straight on to ebay! I agree with so many of these. Couldn't stand Mumma Mia, absolutely hate Love Island, just annoys me and makes me wonder why all the women on it feel they have to look the same (especially with their lips and eyebrows). Another cringe worthy programme is Naked Attraction. Imagine being on that then having to turn up at work the next day - how / why do people do it?!

Those taps in the kitchen that dispense boiling water.

FFS. What’s the point? Just put your pan on to boil while you chop your veg.

They're v handy for hot drinks

I just want a bed for the night. Happy with a Premier Inn.

Elton John generally.

Can't bear his stupid mid Atlantic nasally voice.

If I could expunge his back catalogue from the world that would be lovely.

Lip fillers!! Especially overdone lip fillers. You get a weird duck pout and the lip skin looks so stretched and sore. And all people do is fiddle with them like they're uncomfortable. I can't wait for this trend to die out!!

I agree with your Elton John comments.

Phantom of the Opera and well errr all opera 🙄

I'm a fan of Alfie Boe though because he's a bit funky. 😋